1. From the Monster to the Oppressed: The Odyssey of Caliban
... slave" to the "quintessential colonial victim". Especially in recent years, Caliban has been a major socio-political emblem throughout the world. This paper tries to summarize the various interpretation of Caliban and to demonstrate Caliban's long and erratic journey through different time. Although no one knows what Shakespeare intended Caliban to be, it is clear that he used no ... two late-twentieth-century themes: apartheid in South Africa and French nationalism in Canada. Caliban, as well as Shylock and Othello, became the symbol of "apartheid". They were "driven to reluctant subser...
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